Hebrew ceased to be a regular spoken language sometime between 200 and 400 CE as it declined in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Bar Kokhba revolt, which was carried out against the Roman Empire by the Jews of Judaea. Mishnah Gittin 9:8 refers to the language as Ivrit, meaning Hebrew however, Mishnah Megillah refers to the language as Ashurit, meaning Assyrian, which is derived from the name of the alphabet used, in contrast to Ivrit, meaning the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. 'the language of Judah') or Səpaṯ Kəna'an ( transl. The language was not referred to by the name Hebrew in the Bible, but as Yehudit ( transl. 'the holy tongue' or 'the tongue holiness') since ancient times. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as Lashon Hakodesh ( לָשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ, lit. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. It is the only non-extinct Canaanite language, and is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still spoken, with the other being Aramaic. Having ceased to be a dead language in the 19th century, today's Hebrew serves as the only successful large-scale example of linguistic revival.
However, it was largely preserved as a liturgical language, featuring prominently in Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. It was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a spoken language by their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans, before dying out after 200 CE.
Hebrew ( Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית, ʿĪvrīt, pronounced ( listen) or ( listen) Samaritan script: ࠏࠁࠓࠉࠕ Paleo-Hebrew script: 𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. The word HEBREW written in modern Hebrew language (top) and in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (bottom)
0 kommentar(er)
